Stamshaw Open Air Pool
Bathing in the area was in a lagoon opposite Whale Island in Portsmouth Harbour. Changing facilities were provided in 1904. By 1909, funds of £5,237 had been approved to form…
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Longley Park Bathing Pool
The pool at Longley Park in Sheffield has a connection with the open-air pool at Hathersage. Both were gifts to the community from George Lawrence, proprietor of G H Lawrence…
Purley Way Open-Air Bathing Pool
A London pool that was one of very few that could compete with the size and spectacle of the seaside stadiums such as South Shore at Blackpool, Morecambe and Heysham…
Spiders Web Bathing Pool, Whitby
The pool was privately owned by Mr H S Meek. He originally offered the pool with the attached cafe and putting green on 6,400 square yards of land to the…
Peterborough Lido
The lido at Peterborough is of a design unlike others and this could be down to the unusual design process. When the council proposed the pool, a group of five…
Stanley Park Swimming Bath
Stanley Park is in Anfield and is one of Liverpool’s great parks built in the Victorian era. It opened in 1870 and was designed by Edward Kemp. It is Grade…
Leominster Open Air Swimming Pool
Sydonia began as an open-air lido in 1937 on land given to the town ‘for the children of Leominster for ever’ by local benefactor Sydney Bridges. It was a small…
Churchill Swimming Pool, Hemel Hempstead
The Churchill was an estate of 5 acres owned by the local authority and the swimming pool was opened in May 1937. The pool was built to replace the old…
Sherwood and Carrington Swimming pool aka Carrington Lido
This open-air pool was built on the site of an old tram depot and was one of two pools opened on the same day in the Nottingham area. The other…
Bulwell Swimming Pool aka Bulwell Lido
This open-air pool was one of two pools opened on the same day in the Nottingham area. The other was the Sherwood and Carrington Swimming Pool. The website contains an…